MIB if you can get the info directly. When do you use MIBs/SNMP? On a machine that doesn't have a regular OS, like a switch,printer? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux!